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Nursing Home

Nursing home employees, with registry verification for nurse aides. Long-term care facilities follow their licensing rules, not the DAIL Background Check Policy.

NURSING FACILITY · ON FILE
Registries named
7
Required
3
Expected
4
Screened by ezOIG
5 of 7
Rules checked
October 16, 2026

Required checks

Named by a regulation, a statute or the state's Medicaid agency

  1. Vermont Nurse Aide Registry (Licensed Nursing Assistants)

    Vermont State Board of Nursing, Office of Professional Regulation (Secretary of State)

    SCREENED BY EZOIG Nurse aide registry check
    WHEN
    AT HIRE Before anyone serves as a nurse aide; at hire for findings on any employee
    BASIS
    Nursing Home Licensing and Operating Rules §§ 10.4(a), 3.17(d)(3)(ii); 42 CFR 483.35(d)(4), 483.12(a)(3)(ii)

    Before allowing an individual to serve as a nurse aide, a facility must receive verification from the Vermont Nurse Aide Registry that the individual has met competency evaluation requirement unless:

    Read the source dail.vermont.gov

  2. Vermont Adult Abuse Registry

    Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living, Adult Protective Services

    NOT SCREENED YET Requires an employer account
    WHEN
    AT HIRE At hire, all employees
    BASIS
    Nursing Home Licensing and Operating Rules § 3.17(d)(3)

    have had a finding entered into the Vermont Nurse Aide Registry or the Vermont Adult Abuse Registry concerning abuse, neglect, exploitation or mistreatment of residents or misappropriation of their property.

    Read the source dail.vermont.gov

  3. Find a Professional (OPR licensee lookup)

    Office of Professional Regulation (Secretary of State)

    SCREENED BY EZOIG License verification
    WHEN
    AT HIRE At hire, licensed staff
    BASIS
    42 CFR 483.12(a)(3)(iii)

    Have a disciplinary action in effect against his or her professional license by a state licensure body as a result of a finding of abuse, neglect, exploitation, mistreatment of residents or misappropriation of resident property.

    Read the source ecfr.gov

Expected checks

Standard practice, or implied by a provider's enrollment duties; no rule names them outright

  1. List of Excluded Individuals/Entities

    HHS Office of Inspector General

    SCREENED BY EZOIG Federal exclusion check against the HHS-OIG list
    WHEN
    MONTHLY At hire and monthly
    BASIS
    No Vermont rule names it for nursing homes; 42 CFR 1001.1901 bars payment for services by excluded people, and CMS asks for monthly checks

  2. Vermont Medicaid Excluded Providers List (Monthly List of For Cause Exclusions)

    Department of Vermont Health Access

    SCREENED BY EZOIG State Medicaid exclusion list check
    WHEN
    MONTHLY At hire and monthly
    BASIS
    Standard practice for Vermont Medicaid providers; DVHA republishes its exclusion list monthly

  3. Vermont Criminal Conviction Record (VCCRIS)

    Vermont Crime Information Center, Department of Public Safety

    NOT SCREENED YET Paid access
    WHEN
    AT HIRE At hire
    BASIS
    § 3.17(d)(3)(i) and 42 CFR 483.12(a)(3)(i) bar anyone a court found guilty of abuse, neglect or exploitation; neither names a record source

  4. SAM.gov exclusions

    General Services Administration

    SCREENED BY EZOIG Federal exclusion check against SAM.gov
    WHEN
    MONTHLY At hire and monthly
    BASIS
    Standard practice for Vermont Medicaid providers

Also required

Not registry lookups; ezOIG doesn't run these
  • Information sought from every other state nurse aide registry believed to hold information on the aide, before the aide serves (Nursing Home Licensing and Operating Rules § 10.4(b); 42 CFR 483.35(d)(5))
  • Nurse aide training and competency evaluation within four months of working as an aide (§§ 10.1, 10.3)
  • Report court actions against employees to the Nurse Aide Registry or licensing authority and the licensing agency (§ 3.17(e))

Why some registries are not screened yet

Requires an employer account
Searches go through the employer's own account with the agency, so ezOIG doesn't run them for you.
Paid access
The agency charges for access, and ezOIG doesn't include it yet.

Guidance, not legal advice

This page summarizes ezOIG's research into Vermont's rules for this program, checked against the regulations as of October 16, 2026. Rules change, and an agency's own contract or license can add to them. Confirm what applies to you with Department of Vermont Health Access (Agency of Human Services) or your own counsel before relying on it.

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